Dropbear requiring passphrase

[Logan Anderson]

That sounds highly accurate. Thanks for the info. I'll let you know
tomorrow how it goes.

Logan


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Matt Johnston <matt at ucc.asn.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dropbear has its own key format and doesn't support passphrases (encrypted
> keys). OpenSSH might be getting confused by the unknown format so asks for
> a passphrase, while dbclient just falls back to password authentication?
> dropbearconvert can convert the formats.
>
> Have a look at the Dropbear log /var/log/auth.log if you can, or run with
> "dropbear -F -E" interactively to log to stdout. In a boot script you
> should be able to run "dropbear -E" for just the logging to the console.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
> On 29 April 2014 5:03:29 pm AWST, Logan Anderson <loggiew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I added drop bear to an initramfs I am building for PXE. No matter what I
>> do, dropbear appears to require an ssh passphrase and I really don't know
>> how to handle this. It doesn't ask me for a passphrase when I create the
>> key.
>>
>> It appears to ask for the passphrase when I use ssh but it simply asks
>> for a password when I use dbclient. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Any direction would be welcome.
>>
>
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